So far:
England, Wales
France
Belgium
USA: Florida (Maine too if you count stopping for re-fuelling)
Would like to visit next:
Norway
Italy
Germany
Spain
Holland
More US states.
Rest of Europe.
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Who's been around the most?
by blobby in.
how far travelled are you?.
how many different countries have you visited in your life time.......................can't name the same country twice ....even if it has changed names.. countries on other planets don't count !.
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Beck's beer = best beer
by doogie inthe german purity law.
no preservatives.
which means no hangover.
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Berten,
I'm a bit of a fan of Leffe.
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"This Land" featuring John Kerry & George Bush
by Sirius Dogma in.
liberal weiners & right wing nutjobs unite in laughing.
http://www.jibjab.com/thisland.html
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lol, good ole jibjab.
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Rollercoasters (Fluff)
by little witch inmy first rollercoaster ride was 25 years ago.
the racer at kings island.
it was alot of fun and for whatever reason, that was the last time.
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LW,
Apparently you go from 0-40mph in about 2 secs when you're shot out of the top of the gamma ray machine straight into a sidewides loop.
Dueling dragons was fun. A racing inverted coaster where the trains come within a few inches apart 3 times during the ride.
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Rollercoasters (Fluff)
by little witch inmy first rollercoaster ride was 25 years ago.
the racer at kings island.
it was alot of fun and for whatever reason, that was the last time.
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Ang,
Oh Air's pretty tame. Quite fun to ride actually.
Hulk on the other hand with that powered launch lift hill is another matter.
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Rollercoasters (Fluff)
by little witch inmy first rollercoaster ride was 25 years ago.
the racer at kings island.
it was alot of fun and for whatever reason, that was the last time.
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Ang,
Montu was excellent. We got on it just after a heavy storm so it was running faster than normal.
Did you go to Islands of Adventure? Hulk and Dueling Dragons are good fun too.
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Europe rejects foetal rights bid
by ignored_one inhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3876311.stm
europe rejects foetal rights bid
a woman whose pregnancy was wrongly terminated in a french hospital has lost her fight at the european court to enshrine a foetus' right to life.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3876311.stm
Europe rejects foetal rights bid
A woman whose pregnancy was wrongly terminated in a French hospital has lost her fight at the European Court to enshrine a foetus' right to life.
Mrs Thi-Nho Vo went to the court after French courts said the doctor could not be prosecuted for homicide as the foetus did not have the right to life. She said it had that right under the European Convention on Human Rights.
But the Court of Human Rights ruled against her, and involuntary abortion did not constitute manslaughter.
The ruling sets a precedent on the legal status of unborn babies that will be applied across European countriesIt's a disgraceful situation
Nuala Scarisbrick, LifeCampaigners had warned abortion rights could be affected if Mrs Vo won her case.
The UK's Family Planning Association had warned that if Mrs Vo were to win her case, Britain's abortion laws could be invalidated and even the legality of the morning after pill, which stops a fertilised egg implanting in the uterus, could be affected.
But abortion law experts said the court was likely to shy away from telling individual countries what the detail of their abortion laws should be.
Mix-up
In 1991, Mrs Vo, a French national of Vietnamese origin, went to the Hotel-Dieu hospital in Lyons for an examination when she was six months pregnant.
On the same day, another woman, Thanh Van Vo, was due to have a coil removed at the same hospital.We are pleased that the judges have ruled to reject the applicant's case
Anne Weyman, Family Planning AssociationThe pregnant Mrs Vo, from Bourg-en-Bresse, could not speak French, and was unable to communicate with gynaecologist Francois Golfier.
He mistook her for the other Mrs Vo, and tried to remove a coil, piercing the amniotic sac and making it necessary for a therapeutic abortion to be carried out.
Dr Golfier was charged with unintentional homicide, the French equivalent of involuntary homicide.
He was acquitted of the charge, but convicted on appeal and sentenced to six months in prison and fined 10,000 francs.
But Dr Golfier then appealed to the court of cassation - France's highest court - which overturned the ruling on the grounds that the foetus was not a human being and not entitled to the protection of criminal law.
Legal status
Mrs Vo argued that the foetus is protected by article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees a right to life.
Anne Weyman, chief executive of the Family Planning Association, said: "This was obviously a tragic individual case but we are pleased that the judges have ruled to reject the applicant's case to extend the right to life of the foetus under Article 2 of the Convention on Human Rights."
She said the judgement would mean the laws on abortion throughout Europe would not have to change.HAVE YOUR SAY This court ruling is a slap in the face of humanity
Gordon, Tacoma, USABut Nuala Scarisbrick of the pro-life charity Life, told BBC News Online: "This is not a surprising decision. But it is a disgusting one. It is morally bankrupt."
"It's a disgraceful situation that a child of that stage, who is perfectly viable, is not given the right to life."
UK law allows an abortion to be carried out after 24 weeks if the child has a disability which means it would be born severely handicapped.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/health/3876311.stm
Published: 2004/07/08 18:00:47 GMT
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I'm Getting Married
by RAYZORBLADE ini'm getting married.. date not set, but it'll be sometime in the summer 2004, right here in toronto.. uh-huh...and it'll be a big party!.
who is the lucky person?
his name is drew, and he's an american.
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Congrats Ray and Drew.
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Moscow's final ban on Jehovah's Witnesses!
by Joker10 inmoscow upholds ban on jehovah's witnesses
by maria danilova.
associated press writer leader of russian jehovah's witnesses, vasily kalin, right, jehovah's witnesses' canadian lawyer john burns, center, and spokesman for the jehovah's witnesses christian presber, stand in front of the moscow city court, wednesday, june 16, 2004. a moscow court upheld a ban on the city's jehovah's witnesses, ending a six-year case that reflected growing pressure to stifle minority religious groups in russia, where orthodox christianity is predominant.
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How does the ban work?
Is it simply they can't have organised gatherings i.e meetings, assemblies and preaching?
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Fox News censured for rant at BBC
by ignored_one inhttp://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1239094,00.html
fox news censured for rant at bbc .
ofcom says murdoch station broke programme code .
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http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1239094,00.html
Fox News censured for rant at BBC
Ofcom says Murdoch station broke programme code
Matt Wells, media correspondent
Tuesday June 15, 2004
The Guardian Fox News, the US news network owned by Rupert Murdoch, has been found in breach of British broadcasting rules for an on-air tirade that accused the BBC of "frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Americanism".Television regulators said the broadcaster failed to show "respect for truth" in a strongly worded opinion item, broadcast on the day the Hutton report was published, which also accused BBC executives of giving reporters a "right to lie".
Ofcom, which licenses commercial channels shown in Britain regardless of where they are based, received 24 complaints about the remarks. In a ruling published yesterday, it described the offending item as a "damning critique" but said it did not stand up to scrutiny.
It is the third ruling by British regulators against Fox News, which is available in Britain to Sky Digital customers, in the past year. It broke the rules on "undue prominence" in two previous news items which plugged beauty products and a seed manufacturer.
This is a tricky issue for Ofcom: how to regulate channels which are not produced principally for viewers in Britain. The Independent Television Commission, which preceded Ofcom, responded to complaints last year that Fox did not meet its strict "due impartiality" rules by issuing a ruling that is regarded in some quarters as a fudge to avoid a standoff with Mr Murdoch: it said "due" meant "adequate or appropriate", and Fox News could justifiably claim to have achieved a level of accuracy and impartiality that was appropriate to its audience in the US, where different rules apply.
Ofcom will begin work in July on a new programme code to replace the one inherited from the ITC, and it is likely to redefine the impartiality clause. It is expected, at the least, to redraw the rules to state specifically that they should only apply to channels aimed principally at British viewers. That would cover ITV, Channel 4, Five and Sky News, but exclude Fox and Arab channels such as al-Jazeera.
The Guardian understands that some Ofcom policymakers would like to draw the restrictions more narrowly, applying them only to ITV, Channel 4 and Five. That would allow Mr Murdoch, if he wished, to remodel Sky News into a British version of Fox.
It is unlikely, however, that the Fox rant would get past even a more relaxed regime in Britain, because of its lack of basis in fact.
The Fox presenter, John Gibson, said in a segment entitled My Word that the BBC had "a frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Americanism that was obsessive, irrational and dishonest"; that the BBC "felt entitled to lie and, when caught lying, felt entitled to defend its lying reporters and executives"; that the BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan, in Baghdad during the US invasion, had "insisted on air that the Iraqi army was heroically repulsing an incompetent American military"; and that "the BBC, far from blaming itself, insisted its reporter had a right to lie - exaggerate - because, well, the BBC knew that the war was wrong, and anything they could say to underscore that point had to be right".
Ofcom said Fox had breached the programme code in three areas: failing to honour the "respect for truth" rule; failing to give the BBC an opportunity to respond; and failing to apply the rule that says, in a personal view section, "opinions expressed must not rest upon false evidence".
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Europe rejects foetal rights bid
A woman whose pregnancy was wrongly terminated in a French hospital has lost her fight at the European Court to enshrine a foetus' right to life.
Mrs Thi-Nho Vo went to the court after French courts said the doctor could not be prosecuted for homicide as the foetus did not have the right to life.